AWS Introduces New Chaos Engineering as a Service Offering (techcrunch.com) 20
When large companies like Netflix or Amazon want to test the resilience of their systems, they use chaos engineering tools designed to help them simulate worst-case scenarios and find potential issues before they even happen. Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels introduced the company's Chaos Engineering as a Service offering called AWS Fault Injection Simulator. From a report: The name may lack a certain marketing panache, but Vogels said that the service is designed to help bring this capability to all companies. "We believe that chaos engineering is for everyone, not just shops running at Amazon or Netflix scale. And that's why today I'm excited to pre-announce a new service built to simplify the process of running chaos experiments in the cloud," Vogels said. As he explained, the goal of chaos engineering is to understand how your application responds to issues by injecting failures into your application, usually running these experiments against production systems. AWS Fault Injection Simulator offers a fully managed service to run these experiments on applications running on AWS hardware.
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The con artist has said he likes chaos [buzzfeednews.com]. He really does. It's really good.
Even one of his many subjects admitted chaos is good for the con artist [msn.com] because when people are being gunned down in the streets by police, it shows who the clear choice is for public safety and law and order. No, really, she said that:
"The more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who's best on public safety and law and order," Conway said during an interview on "Fox and Friends."
Re: Chaos Engineer? (Score:2)
An an Unamerican, thar is *so* weird, when you read it as a show like Barney And Friends with the guy from that game of life.
I think I just got high just from thinking about it. :D
Chaos Engineering Motto (Score:5, Funny)
"If it ain't broke, break it".
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Re: Chaos Engineering Motto (Score:2)
What is the sound of one ball with the clap?
Re: Chaos Engineering Motto (Score:2)
By the way: That is only a "problem" because mathematics refuses to accept the concept of time. Because at the time of creation of that list, it does not exist yet, so it can contain all those other lists but not itself. Or it does exist but is still empty.
It only becomes a "paradox" because mathematics deliberately choses a certain ruleset that enforces that. It doesn't have to. There are useful rulesets too.
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And, of course, "Blood for the Blood God"
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If it ain't broke, we'll fix it til it is.
The scene: Amazon.com, C-level meeting (Score:4, Funny)
Jeff Bezos: "We need a way to improve profitability of our cloud services. Any ideas?"
CxO: "Uh... reduce our service's reliability, and ask customers to pay for it?"
Bezos: "What? Why would anyone agree to that?"
CxO: "Uh... we could call it 'chaos engineering'."
Bezos: "Brilliant! Go with it. You get a $0.03 raise."
Re: The scene: Amazon.com, C-level meeting (Score:2)
You can at least give the CxO's name.
His name is Nyarlathotep.
not what businesses need. (Score:2)
What businesses need is security audits to check if they are exposing information regardless of them asking for it. Seriously, there are way to many instances of "information was left on a server exposed to the public for months" where they completely screw the pooch because of laziness.
Didn't AWS include Chaos by default? (Score:1)
Was that not standard? (Score:2)
Based on how often there are strange things happening with AWS instances.. I thought that service was already included in he service..
Suggested marketing name (Score:2)
Call it the Auto-Fuckupinator 9000
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Oh, oh! Maybe even better: Amazon Gremlin
Testing failed AWS services (Score:3)
One issue with testing failures in a cloud environment is that you need to be able to simulate failures of the cloud provider itself. It may seem odd, but each service needs an option to literally "break" it, i.e. say to trigger a hang on the database, or similar. Without this, it won't be possible to fully simulate all the various failure modes that could happen, and realistically, it means that you can never be sure your DR plans will work.
Dey Stole My Jerb (Score:1)
Dey stole my jerb. :(
What if that os already your standard mode? (Score:2)
We could use some orderly engineering over where I'm currently at.
I think they've never seen a piece of software that was actually planned. Unless you count design-by-Nyarlathotep.
rebranded Netflix's... (Score:2)
I wonder if this is just a rebranded fork of ChaosMonkey [github.com]?
Sort of like they did with ElasticSearch a while back.